· Private foundation
Terra Mater Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RESQ | $30,000 |
| Wild Horizons Wildlife Orphanage | $15,000 |
| Auroville Foundation | $10,000 |
| Care Earth Trust | $5,000 |
| ATREE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 70% of grant dollars ($35k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 30% that went abroad ($15k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 25% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 30% of all-years giving ($15k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WHWild Horizons Wildlife Orphanage and Sanctuary2× · 2024–2025 · $25k · revenue -6%
- CECare Earth Trust2× · 2024–2025 · $10k
- AATREE2× · 2024–2025 · $10k
Funded once
- PPuvidhamone grant, 2024 · $10k
- FSFRIENDICOES SECA INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- TSTheosophical Societyone grant, 2024 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
2 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 2 of the 8 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Terra Mater Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Terra Mater Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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